Intelligent failure occurs when an entrepreneurial initiative falls short of its anticipated performance. It provides valuable new knowledge to the organisation and is recognised as an important factor in long-term corporate ...

Dumrongwong, Konpanas(University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter Business School, 2013-06-21)

This research investigated the market conditions caused by IPO advertising by examining the impact of IPO advertising, based on the US stock market from 1986 to 2009. The relationship between advertising intensity in the ...

Klinpratoom, Apinya(University of ExeterFinance, The Business School, 2010-04-29)

The covered warrant market in the UK has gained in popularity over time since first launched in 2002. This has opened up an alternative investment choice which offers derivative securities with a life of typically one to ...

The role of the state is not limited to only collecting Zakat but it must also distribute Zakat effectively. The correct practice of Zakat distribution is necessary to ensure the Zakat fund is utilised effectively and that ...

Otter populations declined drastically across many areas of England and Wales during the 1960s to 1980s. The main cause of this decline is thought to have been high concentrations of organic pollutants, in particular PCBs ...

The significant impact of method of payment on the share price abnormal returns following mergers and acquisitions have been broadly considered and documented in US and UK empirical studies (Agrawal and Jaffe 2000). In the ...

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Writers of the 1830s and 1840s sought to interpret their changing society in an explosion of new forms, developing an all-inclusive aesthetic that saw writing as a direct expression of individual experience, ...

This thesis studies the problem of initiation of propagation of excitation waves in one- dimensional spatially extended excitable media. In a study which set out to determine an analytical criteria for the threshold ...

Negative Poisson’s ratio, or auxetic, materials present the possibility of designing structures
and components with tailored or enhanced mechanical properties.
This thesis explores the phenomenon of auxetic behaviour in ...

The effects of lime treatment on the mechanical properties of soils are usually not accounted for in the design of geotechnical structures. As a result the potential of lime treatment has not been fully exploited. In this ...

In this thesis, three parts, each with several chapters, are respectively
devoted to hydrostatic, viscous and inertial fluids theories and applications. In the hydrostatics part, the classical Maclaurin spheroids theory ...

This thesis aims to explain and analyze the policy dynamics behind implementation patterns in multi-level policy settings using the EU as an example. It does so by examining the implementation of EU environmental policy ...

Bone marrow oedema is a term used to define the appearance of regions of low signal on T1 weighted and high signal on T2 weighted fat-suppressed magnetic resonance images. The potential association between bone marrow ...

Low back pain is a costly financial and loss of productivity societal issue. Although its aetiology is unclear, it has been associated with the intervertebral disc and its degeneration which has been thought to be caused ...

Pin-up images have played an important role in American culture, in both their illustrated and photographic configurations. The pin-up is viewed as a significant representational cultural artifact of idealistic and ...

This thesis comprises an attempt to re-evaluate the experience and the survival of the indigenous Christian population of al-Andalus. It is a response to two problematic aspects of the historiography, whose authority has ...

Vaquero Alba, Iker(University of ExeterCentre for Ecology and ConservationBiosciences, 2011-12-13)

Traditional models of sexual selection based on the handicap principle assume a direct linkage between the degree of sexual signal exaggeration and the bearer’s quality, and set out a rather inflexible scenario where ...

The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 raised a host of theological issues. Chief amongst them is the question of how a good, loving, and powerful God could create through an evolutionary process that involved ...

Czech animated allegories of the period of 1946 to 2012 encode their political ideas in objects and things, rather than through conventional narrative techniques such as voice-over or dialogue. The existence of these objects ...

This thesis examines women’s responses to ageing through cosmetic intervention, as part of broader practices of health and wellbeing. The thesis identifies a lack of geographical attention to the embodied and emotional ...